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“Mike’s Nature trick”
March 10th, 2010 by Joel
One of the most hyped emails from the Climategate hack was this one, sent by Phil Jones:
I’ve just completed Mike’s Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith’s to hide the decline.
“Proxy records” for temperatures provide a method [...]
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Hiding the rise
February 23rd, 2010 by Joel
Alternative title: The complete idiot’s guide to cherrypicking.
Willis Eschenbach (of Darwin Zero fame) has a post on Watt’s Up With That concerning the homogenisation process in Anchorage and Matanuska (both in Alaska). Matanuska was chosen for being close to Anchorage. But why start in Anchorage? No explanation is given. Something about this smells like cherrypicking [...]
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Is something rotten in Alaska?
February 2nd, 2010 by Joel
Via an open thread on Deltoid, I discovered a link to this article by E.M. Smith (reposted on Watt’s Up With That), looking at an odd map he’d managed to generate using a temperate map generator on the NASA GISS site. The map generator’s pretty fun to play with.
A map of the temperate anomalies can [...]
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